Family and friends attend the funeral of Ruth Njeri Macharia (27), who was killed in an attack on the Westgate mall, at the Langata Cemetery, on 27 September.

On 21 September, masked gunmen opened fire at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall. The upmarket mall was popular among expats and the Kenyan elite. In a siege that lasted four days, at least 60 people died and up to 200 were injured. The four main perpetrators of the attack were killed, and a number of other men were later tried as accomplices. The four gunmen were all of Somali origin. The Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was a warning to Kenya to pull its troops out of Somalia, where they were part of an African Union peacekeeping force in conflict with the militants.

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Tyler Hicks is a senior photographer for The New York Times. In 2014, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his coverage of the massacre at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. That same year he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award and the Visa d’or News Award in Perpignan, France for this coverage.